Recent content by eric_ives

Here is a human-designed map with 15 civilizations I made for myself, as I like human-designed maps more than computer-generated maps. It's fairly well balanced, and you can win playing any starting civilization. I called this map Odysseus World. This a Worldbuilder Beyond the Sword save in a...

Thanks so much for the game picture, NiRv4n4. Yes, and it shouldn't have been Valinor anyway, as in the second age that would have been Lindon, and it wasn't the Vanyar who lived in Lindon, it was the Noldar. Oh well. The Zulus and Carthage are the weakest starting positions, although if you...

I've created a Civ IV Beyond the Sword huge map (I think maybe 120 x 80, or whatever the default is for generating a standard huge map) based on the 1982 Iron Crown Middle Earth Roleplaying map of the whole continent, of which Middle Earth is a part. A medium-sized image of this map is here, and...

I've improved the starting point for the German player in this attached map. Germany was just too weak without some resources near its starting city. This will allow a more balanced game. Otherwise the map is the same.

I like human-constructed maps more than the computer-generated ones, and I wanted a large-size world with an area shaped like Narnia. So, I've made this map. This map was made on a Macintosh, and saved in the World Builder format, and then zipped. Resources are pretty-well distributed...

I prefer a human drawn map to the sort of things that a computer randomly generates. This map is inspired by the land forms of East Asia and the Pacific, although it is not a direct copy from real earth landforms. There is a large continent where barbarians will fight against any settlement...

I just started playing Civilization IV a week ago. It seems the game requires smaller maps than Civilization III, so I decided to not try to make another map of Middle Earth based upon the Iron Crown Middle Earth Role Playing system map. I have made a sort of Pangea map with a continent where...

I was wondering what they are myself. I really don't know what the four white dots on the map's jpg are or how they got there. - Eric

I was looking for a nice standard or large map to play a quick game of Civilization on my Macintosh and found that most the maps here are huge or bigger, and many are in formats that Macs can't use. So, here's a little contribution of a fantasy map I made on a 130x130 map. The names of...

I'm so glad you enjoy the map. I suppose we ought to give credit to Iron Crown Enterprises for designing it, as I mainly copied their map as faithfully as I could given the limitations I imposed. My computers get slow on maps of this size, so I haven't completed a game (I can forsee my...

If you start near the Gulf of Lune or the River Anduin it's a pretty easy map, as you have more room to expand. Starting on the star-shaped Numenor you'll find the smaller land-mass and isolation from other cultures early on will put you behind other civilizations early in the game, but you...

Iron Crown Enterprises had a Middle Earth Role-Playing game back in the 1980s and early 1990s. I have a poster of their conception of Middle Earth (with the lands familiar to most readers from Tolkien's books and Jackson's movies in the northwest corner of a vast Pangea landmass). So, I have...